Pluripotent cells in farm animals: State of the art and future perspectives

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 103-128

  Nowak Imialek, Monika ^a   Niemann, Heiner ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cell fusion; embryonic stem cells; farm animals; germ cells; induced pluripotent stem cells; reprogrammed cells

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE MARKER; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 4; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRA 1 60 PROTEIN; TRA 1 81 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BOS PRIMIGENIUS; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; DOMESTIC PIG; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIBLAST STEM CELL; FARM ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GOAT; HORSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; SHEEP; SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER; SWINE; UPREGULATION; WATER BUFFALO;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL FUSION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENITALIA; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MALE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84871631622     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12265     Document Type: Article

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